Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-07-07
FACT AND FANCY.

One hundred sparrow nests were destroyed
by the recent tearing down Of an ivy vine on Q
Troy, N. Y, church.
The authorities of Brooklyn have appointed
fifteen matrons, at a salary of 5000 each to
care for women prisoners at the principal po-
lice stations.
A Cuban resident OF Key West, Fla, recent
ly imported from Cuba four cows, which are
driven up to his door and MIXED every morn
ing, thus insuring to the owner pure, fresh
milk.
SIN heaven there will be no avoiding the
negro. Washed In the blood of the lamb he
will be of the same color as the fastidious
churchmen of South Carolina. He will not
smell in heaven"
An English statistican has discovered that
married men live longer and better lives than
bachelors. Among every 1000 bachelors
there are 80 criminals; among married men
the ratio is only IS per 1000.
A free library is being established in New
York by the Odd Fellows of that city, aud
nearly twenty-five thousand books have been
secured by charging one book for each adj
mission to entertainments in the interest OF
the enterprise.
A young girl employed in Cincinnati tailor
ing establishment was leaning over pot OF
boiling coffee when suddenly it exploded,
throwing the fluid In all directions. She was
so badly burned it 1. feared her eyesight has
been destroyed.
whats your idea OF heaven, Smithn asked
Mr. Cephas Aurelius Winker OF that gentle
man, as they walked homeward after service.
Smith replied sadly, rubbing an ugly stubblc
beard: "A barber-shop where next comes
Immediately on saturda' night"
There's couple of nice cucumbers, doc
tor" said the green grocer, "all I've left.
was going to send them over to the Smiths,
but IL you want 'em you can have 'em. NO."
replied the doctor, hastily, ''let the Smiths
have them. They are patients Of mine"
1t has been determined by recent observa-
tions that the average yearly recession of the
whole contour Of the Horseshoe fall since lSi2
has been "a feet, but at the acute angles
where the bulk OF the water passes the reels
sion since 1912 has been three hundert feet
or seven feet per year. the rate increasing in
recent years.
Albany has one Of the cheapest restaurants
in the world. Recently halfdime lunch
place has been opened Oh Broadway, at which
all sorts Of dishes from clam-chowder up to
broiled steak, with bread and butter are
served at five cents each. The bill of fare Is
. marvel of cheapness, and the cooking 10
said to be pretty good, too.
An old deacon was asked the other day:
chow you like your pastorr' First rate"
he replied, "exccpt in one thing" whats
that" 1T is this" continued the deacon:
''the Lord never made him to tell jokes and
yet he insists on telling them. / never like to
laugh when don't want to laugh, and yet
have to do 1t constantly, just to save the
pastors's feelings"
The following charming obituary notices
were recently brought to light by a writer on
an eastean magazine. One was found 10
Bowie, Arizona, paper "'Death loves
shining mark aud she hit dandy when she
turned loose on JIM" The other in anew
Mexico contemporary: "Her tired spirit was
released from the pain racking body, and
scared aloft to eternal glory at 4:3o Denver
time"
A Roxbury cit zen. says The Boston Tran
script, has daughter about three years old.
Having accompanied her mother to witness q
baptism the next day she said she was going
to have a baptism herself, and arranging her
dolls along the edge OF the bath tub, she pre-
pared one Of them for immersion. Her mother,
hearing the child's voice, advanced within list
ening distance and heard the following adj
dress to the candidate: now baptize you In
the name OF the Father aud the Son, and into
the hole you CO."
A 5-year-old boy In the city recently CON-
menced attending Sunday-school, and became
deeply interested In the teachings he received.
After one or two lessons had been given him
be expressed strong wish for q "sling- shot"
His fond mother was rather astonished at the
request and asked the young hopeful why he
wanted such q thing His reply was prompt
and 10 the point AT sunday-school," said
he, 'they told a story of little boy that killed
. big giant with q sling-shot and he wanted
one"